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Messy play is fun!
With raw materials such as sand, water, chalk, paint, play dough or paste, children’s imaginations can run wild and they can spend a long time exploring these, making their own discoveries, stimulating their curiosity and developing their knowledge.
With messy play, the sensory experience also helps children to understand their senses. By exploring how things feel, smell and taste, this type of play nurtures an awareness and understanding of the world that surrounds them.
Messy play is a sociable activity, whether with family or other children, so naturally, it will enrich relationships through social interaction. As young children cannot always explain things verbally, it allows them to share their discoveries in different ways using objects and gestures and to do this, they need to think through their actions so they can communicate this explanation which also helps develop their cognition.